"We migrated Stack Overflow's ad server from .NET 4.6.2 to .NET 5.0 and we are testing it on a canary server in production. We are seeing big improvements in memory usage and in server response times. It wasn't the main goal of the migration, but definitely a nice to have" / Twitter
It's always the same: After npm installing a new library, we have to follow a readme step by step to include it into our application. Usually this involves creating configuration objects, referencing css files, and importing Angular Modules. As such tasks aren't fun at all it would be nice to automate this.
ng add
.NET and .NET Core (and Windows!) have been getting better and better with Docker. I run Docker for Windows as it supports both Linux Containers and Windows Containers. They have both a Stable and Edge channel. The Edge (Beta) channel is regularly updated and, as a rule, gets better and better in the year I've been running it.
On 16th November 2016, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family at Connect(); 2016 event. I thought let's give it a try so I installed the same and went through the project templates available in it. This blog is kind of a getting started guide to install Visual Studio For Mac.
We have done Javascript development for quite a few years and we are quite proficient at it as a team. Still there is room for improvement. We really dislike the syntax of the revealing module pattern and we love strongly typed languages for the compile time checks it provides
JSON Web Token is a security token which acts as a container for claims about the user, it can be transmitted easily between the Authorization server (Token Issuer), and the Resource server (Audience), the claims in JWT are encoded using JSON which make it easier to use especially in applications built using JavaScript.
This is a cumulative servicing update that provides fixes to Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. These fixes address high-impact bugs that were either found by the product team or reported by the community. This update will be released on a recurring basis as new bugs are found and fixed.
ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a concept of application offline. This mean that when there is App_Offline.htm file in the root of a web application directory then ASP.NET will shut-down the application, unload the application domain from the server, and stop processing any new incoming requests for that application. In ASP.NET 5, there is an open-issue for supporting this feature.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Book book = new Book();
var codeprop = book.GetType().GetProperty("Code", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
codeprop.SetValue(book, 20, null);
var value = codeprop.GetValue(book, null);
}
}
public class Book
{
public int code;
public int Code
{
get { return code; }
}
} highlights the capabilities of the In-memory technology, showcasing the awesome performance gains as well as how easy it is to get started with and use In-memory OLTP.
